Patriotism of Illinois, Volume 2
by T.M. Eddy
Chicago: Clarke & Co. 1865

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ONE HUNDREDTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
The 100th infantry, known as the "Will County Regiment," was
organized at Joliet on the 28th of August, 1862, mustered into the
service on the 31st, and ordered to the front on the 2d of September.
The following is the regimental roster at that date:
[A list of officers is given; I did not type it in.]


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  The 100th, numbering 39 commissioned officers and 868 enlisted
men, proceeded to Louisville by rail, and marched thence through
Kentucky in pursuit of Bragg, to Nashville, Tennessee.  March-
ing from Nashville to Murfreesboro, it participated in the skirmish
at Lavergne and Stewart's Creek on the 27th of December, and
in the battle of Stone River on the 31st of December, 1862, and
1st and 2d of January, 1863, losing two officers and thirty-two enlist-
ed men killed and wounded.  It moved thence to Chattanooga,
being the second regiment to enter the town.  From Chattanooga it
proceeded to Chickamauga, engaging in the battle on the 19th and
20th of September, 1863, losing eight officers and 156 men killed
and wounded and prisoners--exactly one above half the number of
men who went into the fight.  After the battle the regiment under-
went the privations incident to the siege of Chattanooga by Bragg,
and was in the front line of Sheridan's division when it stormed
Mission Ridge, and shared in the pursuit of the rebels after the
Ridge was taken.  It lost here one man killed and thirty-one wound-
ed and five officers wounded severely.  On the 27th the regiment
marched to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, took part in the
campaign in the winter of 1863-64 in East Tennessee, returning to
Cleveland, Tennessee, on the 1st of May, 1864.  On the 3d of May
it started on the march for Atlanta, engaging the enemy at Buzzard's
Roost on the 9th of May, losing one killed and several wounded.
It followed the enemy during the entire summer till the 1st of Septem-
ber, being, of those one hundred and seventeen days, one hundred
under fire, and participating in the following engagements and skir-
mishes:  May 14th and 15th, Resaca; 17th, Adairsville; 22d to
June 1st, Dallas; June 5th, Lost Mountain; 7th, Pine Mountain;
18th, works in front of Kenesaw Mountain, and thence to the 3d of
July in the siege of Kenesaw, participating in the charge on the
27th of June; July 4th, Noses Creek; on the 13th it destroyed the
cotton factory at Roswell on the Chattahoochie; on the 15th it
crossed the Chattahoochie, and on the 20th fought its share of the
battle of Peach Tree Creek; on the 22d it moved up to the siege of
Atlanta under a cross fire of the enemy's works, and remained there


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till the 25th of August, when it shared the march in swinging around
Atlanta.  It was in the battle of Jonesboro on the 31st of August
and of Lovejoy Station on the 1st of September, returning to
Atlanta with the army on the 5th of September and resting till the
26th.  The regiment went into the campaign on the 3d of May with
245 enlisted men and 25 commissioned officers, and on the 20th of
August there were present 127 enlisted men and thirteen officers,
making the loss by death, wounds, and sickness one hundred and
eighteen men and twelve officers.  Ninety-two men and eight
officers were killed, wounded and taken prisoners on this campaign.
On the 26th it moved by rail to Chattanooga, and left there on the
19th of October, marching across Lookout Mountain to Bridgeport
and Stevenson, arriving October 31st.  On the 25th of Novem-
ber it reached Columbia, Tennessee, having evacuated Pulaski, where
works of an extensive nature were built, and at Columbia skir-
mished with Hood till the 20th.  On that day it marched to Spring
Hill, shared the fight there to save the train, and on the 30th march-
ed to and fought the battle of Franklin, losing thirty enlisted men
killed, wounded and prisoners, and one officer killed and one wound-
ed.  On the 1st of December it marched to Nashville and partici-
pated in the fight on the 15th and 16th of December, losing but one
man killed.  From thence it followed Hood to the Tennessee River,
thence to Huntsville, Alabama, arriving there on the 3d of Janu-
ary, 1865, and leaving by rail for Knoxville and Bull's Gap on the
27th of March following.  It arrived at the Gap on the 3d of April
and moved to Blue Springs on the 4th, remaining until the 19th,
when it marched to Rogersville Junction, and on the 22d took the
cars for Nashville, arriving on the 26th, where a camp was laid out
and the command rested from its labors.  On the 12th of June the
regiment was mustered out, and on the 13th started for home, reach-
ing Chicago on the 16th.  On the 1st of July the men were paid off,
received their discharge papers, and the 100th Illinois Volunteer
Infantry ceased to exist.
  The following is the roster of the regiment on muster out.  The
whole command drew rations on the 28th of June, 1865, at Camp
Douglas, Chicago, for 250 men:
[A list of officers is given; I did not type it in.]


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  The losses of the regiment in killed, wounded and prisoners,
during its term of service, were as follows:  Officers, 26; men, 342;
total, 368.  It is but proper to state that a number of men were
wounded in different battles, and that some taken prisoners were
afterwards wounded; so that the above recapitulation exhibits the
number reported wounded, killed and captured at each separate
engagement.  Of forty-two who were taken to Andersonville, but
thirteen came out alive.